Best Protection: ASProtect 2 or Armadillo 4?

[TmC]

I think armadillo v4 is more hard. Keys cannot be keygenned and if you use nanomites, import table elimination, memorypatching options, strategic code splicing and copymemII, there are only a few crackers that can crack it. Asprotect has been cracked several times but i haven't seen an unpacked working version of the Armadillo 4.00 private, carded some days ago. So from your point of view armadillo is better.
From ours...asprotect is better.
And this only for the hard or easy part.
You should also consider, like dyn!o said that 10 months does not mean "uncrackable" your software hasn't been cracked because it is not so famous or needed to moove a cracker to look at it and reverse it and unprotect it. Maybe someone cracked it, but because the only one that needed that program was him, he didn't release the crack to the public.
You should also consider your money budget. Upgrading from asprotect v1 to v2 is 49$, buying armadillo is 399$ so it's a huge difference.
Good luck and take your program here for us to crack is and make you happy :P

Hello,

Interseting post in this forum...How to protect something from cracking...

Well both are ok ...what can you afford it that is the question. There is no such thing as good protection...the are people (with this forum also) than can break anything. I was suprised on how complicated stuff can be easly cracked with so little effort. I am reading this forums and what I seen so far on some post there are definetly talented people visitng this forum.

I've used ASProtect and it is fine. At least it will protect from hacking from newbies in this field.

Do not get me wrong here but if the prog is not hacked for 10 months that could mean that it is not widely used. Everything that you can lock someone can unlock.

Regards to all...asmith

Hey, I'm relatively new to all this but I've been checking into these types of programs (PE Compressers and the like). How do you think Thinstall compares to those?

I've been playing around with the Thinstall trial, just personally for the DLL/OCX integration with all the VB programs I've written, since VB Powerwrap and all the rest I've tried are rather screwy. I'm still curious about how well it stacks up on the security front though. Anyone?

[JMI]

Don't know if you are correct about your "current" version (4.96), but I have three different versions of the 4.88 edition with the protection removed sitting on one of my old HDs from a time before I because bored with the exercise.

Those were rather trivial, but I lack the time to play with your product at the moment. Someone actually has to work and make a living and feed all those youngins who are going to school or looking for work.

Regards,

Just because Armadillo hasnt been keygenned yet does'nt mean it still wont be, theyve said many times they got it all fixed up so Im not quite willing to believe its 100% yet.

smartins: Your kinda brave imo posting your software, many people of major cracking groups are here and may release your software just to 'show you'

[dyn!o]

MrAnonymous: well said. This should end this thread (for author's security)